# Reddit story video > A Reddit story video is a short vertical video that reads a Reddit post aloud with a synthetic or human voice, shows the post title on a card, and plays gameplay or stock footage underneath with burned-in captions. Canonical: https://www.makeviral.ai/glossary/reddit-story-video Updated: 2026-09-15 Published: 2026-09-15 Author: MakeViral Team (https://www.makeviral.ai/about) Publisher: MakeViral (https://www.makeviral.ai) **Definition:** A Reddit story video is a short vertical video that reads a Reddit post aloud with a synthetic or human voice, shows the post title on a card, and plays gameplay or stock footage underneath with burned-in captions. This is the highest-volume faceless format on TikTok and YouTube Shorts, because the writing is already done. A post from a storytelling subreddit has a conflict in the first line, a turn in the middle and a payoff at the end, which is exactly the shape a 60-second video needs. ## The standard build 1. A title card that looks like a Reddit post, shown for the first second or two while the title is read. 2. The body of the post read by an [AI voiceover](https://www.makeviral.ai/glossary/ai-voiceover), usually at 1.1x to 1.3x speed. 3. [Burned-in captions](https://www.makeviral.ai/glossary/subtitle-burn-in) in sync with the voice. 4. A gameplay clip underneath so there is always motion. 5. A cut at the cliffhanger when the story runs longer than one video, with "part 2" in the caption. ## What to know before you publish Reddit posts are written by other people. Reading one word for word and monetizing it is the part that causes takedowns and reused-content strikes. Safer practice is to use the post as a source, rewrite it in your own words, change identifying details, and credit the subreddit in the description. Length matters more than it looks. A story that needs 90 seconds and gets cut at 45 kills [completion rate](https://www.makeviral.ai/glossary/completion-rate). Pick posts that finish inside a minute, or split them deliberately. MakeViral writes the story from a prompt rather than scraping a post, then renders the card, the voice, the captions and the background in one pass. See the [Reddit story video generator](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/reddit-story-video-generator) or the step-by-step guide on [how to make Reddit story videos](https://www.makeviral.ai/blog/how-to-make-reddit-story-videos). ## Questions about reddit story video ### Can I use real Reddit posts in my videos? You can read public posts, but the text belongs to the person who wrote it and platforms treat word-for-word reuse as reused content. Most channels that survive rewrite the story in their own words, change names and details, and credit the subreddit in the description. ### Which subreddits work best for story videos? The ones with a conflict in the title: relationship drama, workplace revenge, family disputes, confessions. The test is whether the first sentence makes someone need the second. A post that needs three paragraphs of setup will not survive the first second of a short video. ### Do I need a Reddit account to make these videos? No. You need a story. MakeViral writes an original story from a one-line prompt and renders the post card, the voiceover and the captions, so there is no scraping step and nothing to copy from someone else's account. ## See it in action - [Reddit Story Video Generator](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/reddit-story-video-generator): Give it a premise, get a finished vertical video: Reddit post card, AI voice, word-by-word captions and gameplay behind it. The format that still holds attention for 90 seconds. ## Related terms - [Brainrot](https://www.makeviral.ai/glossary/brainrot): Brainrot is a style of short vertical video built for constant stimulation: a fast voiceover, large burned-in captions, and a looping gameplay or satisfying clip filling the rest of the frame so the eye never rests. - [AI voiceover](https://www.makeviral.ai/glossary/ai-voiceover): An AI voiceover is narration produced by a speech model from a written script, used in place of a recorded human voice, and usually returned with per-word timing that captions can be built from. - [Full glossary](https://www.makeviral.ai/glossary)